1.   Although he is offended by acts of flag desecration, Feingold said, people should have the right to commit them.

2.   Area lawmakers explain why they voted for or against a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration.

3.   As a presidential contender, Ashcroft focused on such conservative issues as abortion, flag desecration and prohibiting federal testing of schoolchildren.

4.   Better not to mess with a definition of flag desecration.

5.   Brady, however, argued that founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison never intended flag desecration as a constitutional right.

6.   A ban of flag desecration is also out of step with the confidence of the American founders in the system of government they created.

7.   A House committee prepares for a debate on flag desecration.

8.   After the Supreme Court implicitly struck down all flag desecration laws, Mendoza-Lugo achieved a brief moment of fame.

9.   But a group seeking to ban flag desecration hopes to change that.

10.   But, according to the polls, four in five Americans want flag desecration treated differently, so Congress probably will go along.